PERTH AND District Model Railway Club held its annual exhibition at the Dewar’s Centre in Perth at the weekend.

The event, which has come to be one of the best in Scotland, attracted thousands of enthusiasts from all over the UK.

It was the latest in a sequence of 15 organised by the Perth club, which started out modestly in the Lesser City Hall in 1990, with five or six exhibits.

On offer at this year’s event were some 20 model railway displays, together with a host of modelling demonstrations, societies including the Highland Railway Association and the Caledonian Railway Association and more than 25 trade stands.

The Perth Club exhibited its award-winning OO gauge layout, Almond Bridge, which won two competition categories at the national exhibition in Glasgow this year.

Guest layouts from all over the UK were on display, including one special display featuring Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends from the Island of Sordor.